Can branches be used for unit tests?

Question

git

I've been using GIT for a while now. And I wanted to ask about the advisability of using a separate branch for unit tests in the repository with the main code. Or is a separate repository usually created for testing? I ask because there is a gh-pages branch on GitHub, for pages...

Answer 1

they can, but the tests must lie with the code. Moreover, for each branch, they may differ depending on the differences in the functionality of each branch.
And the gh-pages branch is needed only in order not to produce a separate repository for this case. You can deploy only one version.